Launch new app `init`

1

Hi

As per the docs I want to launch an app:

    flyctl init --verbose \
        --access-token $ACCESS_TOKEN \
        --name $APP_NAME \
        --org $ORG \
        --nowrite ;

I then got the error that init was an invalid command. After searching the forum it was suggested init was no longer a command? I tried using launch but then even with --now the command requires interaction to confirm with Y/n because of an existing fly.toml file.

    flyctl launch --verbose \
        --access-token $ACCESS_TOKEN \
        --name $APP_NAME \
        --org $ORG \
        --now;

The app is launched from a CI job, so there is no interaction? How should we best proceed? Should/can we install a previous version of flyctl that has the init command? Thank you!

2

We deprecated init because it was overlapping too much with fly apps create and fly launch.

Use apps create to create a new app record on Fly with $APP_NAME, without deployment or config generation.

Use fly launch to generate a config and optionally deploy, all in one shot. If that’s your goal, you could remove fly.toml before running the command.

If you can describe your goal here, I can help!